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Small tools. Each does one thing well.

We release the utilities we build for our own engineering work, openly on GitLab. This page is the index of what's available today.

macOS · menu-bar utilities

Powertools

A collection of small, focused macOS power-user utilities. Each tool lives in its own directory, builds independently, and does one thing well.

ThrottleWatch

Is your Mac being throttled right now?

A lightweight menu-bar app that continuously monitors CPU thermal throttling and shows it live. The icon is a speedometer at full speed — it turns into a flame with the throttle percentage the moment the CPU is being limited.

  • Privilege-free live metrics — speed limit, temperature, thermal level, kernel_task activity
  • Real active CPU clock read in-process via IOReport — no root, no password, ~0.25% CPU
  • Live scrolling charts plus a session summary with ring gauges and a per-hour heatmap
  • Two chart renderers — SwiftUI Charts or a GPU-driven Core Animation path
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ThrottleWatch live view — CPU speed-limit chart, frequency and temperature chart, and recent samples table
Live view
ThrottleWatch session summary — throttle, frequency and heat ring gauges with a per-hour ribbon heatmap
Session summary

SpaceMan

Find what's eating your disk — and take it back.

A menu-bar app that watches your free disk space and helps you reclaim it fast. The icon shows your free space and fills orange, then red, as it runs low.

  • Disk overview — the same free/used figures Finder shows, read privilege-free
  • Reclaimable space hogs sized largest-first: Xcode DerivedData, caches, logs, Trash
  • Project build folders (node_modules, target, build, …) discovered under a folder you choose
  • Every hidden ~/.folder in your home directory, sized and sorted
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RECLAIMABLE

User Caches · iOS DeviceSupport · Xcode DerivedData · Logs · Archives · Trash — each with a one-click Reclaim action.

HOME .FOLDERS

~/.npm · ~/.gradle · ~/.asdf · ~/.cargo — every hidden folder sized and sorted largest-first, protected folders marked keep.

Powertools is released under the PolyForm Noncommercial License — free for personal and internal use. Issues and merge requests are welcome on GitLab.

PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 gitlab.com/wavingknowledge.com ↗